mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails
In the case that dev_alloc_name() fails, e.g. because the name was
given by the user and already exists, we need to clean up properly
and free the per-CPU statistics. Fix that.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5a490510ba5f ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 453b4e74..e1cb22c 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@
ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
if (ret < 0) {
- free_netdev(ndev);
+ ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
return ret;
}
@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@
ret = register_netdevice(ndev);
if (ret) {
- free_netdev(ndev);
+ ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
return ret;
}
}